ScanBrid International A/S

ScanBrid International A/S

Heidi Larsen (farm manager), Ejner Boersting (breeding manger and geneticist) and Kristen Sorensen (trainee manager and geneticist) of ScanBrid Int. A.S. ScanBrid International A/S was set up in Denmark by the Turkish company KOY-TUR Holding A.S. and the Norwegian...
Reginald C Punnett

Reginald C Punnett

The picture above shows Reginald Punnett (left) with his professor and then colleague William Bateson. As their experiments progressed, they soon realized the vast body of research that lay before them and the rest of the scientific community. They started the first...
Peele’s Norfolk Black Turkeys

Peele’s Norfolk Black Turkeys

The Rookery Farm, Thuxton The Rookery Farm, located near Thuxton, Norfolk, England was purchased in 1932 by Frank Peele, formerly owned by Henry Abbot. He was the son of Earnest E. Peele who with his brother George J. established the business in 1880 with a...
Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms Inc

Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms Inc

George Nicholas and his wife Eileen “Johnnie” Nicholas started a turkey farm at Two Rock about 10 miles West of Petaluma, California, a few months after their marriage in 1938. The property was found to be disease-ridden and not suitable for turkeys. Petaluma was once...
Mt Hope Farm

Mt Hope Farm

The geneticists of Mt Hope Farm, Dr Edward F. Godfrey (mid-left) and Dr Hubert Goodale (mid-right) Mt Hope Farm was the creation of a former Chicago lawyer Col. Ezra Parmalee Prentice. He was born in Davenport, Iowa. He graduated with a B.A. (Law) in 1886 from Amherst...
Lohmann Tierzucht GmbH

Lohmann Tierzucht GmbH

Lohmann Tierzucht is in the Lohmann-Wesjohann Group, a conglomerate of more than thirty companies in complementary operations and products encompassing breeding, layer pullet multiplication and egg production, animal nutrition, livestock feeds and concentrates,...